Sunday, 13 September 2015

Reading List

I've decided I need to get back into reading regularly. I went through a phase of reading before bed...that quickly fizzled out, so instead I'm going to push myself to try and read a book in a month (or two). These have taken my fancy so far, along with all the other books I've got piled up at home!

Why Not Me?
Mindy Kaling has found herself at a turning point. So in Why Not Me?,
she shares her ongoing journey to find fulfilment and adventure in her
adult life, be it falling in love at work, seeking new friendships
inunlikely places, or attempting to be the first person in history to
lose weight without any behaviour modification whatsoever.
In
“How to Look Spectacular”, she reveals her tongue-in-cheek solutions for
guaranteed on-camera beauty. “Player” tells the story of Mindy being
seduced, then dumped, by a female friend in LA. And in “Soup Snakes”,
she spills some secrets on her relationship with ex-boyfriend and close
friend, B. J. Novak.
Mindy has put the anxieties, the glamour and
the celebrations of her second coming-of-age into this book, to which
anyone can relate. (And, if they can’t, they can skip to the parts where
she talks about meeting Bradley Cooper.)

Yes Please
In Amy Poehler's highly anticipated first book, Yes Please, she
offers up a big juicy stew of personal stories, funny bits on sex and
love and friendship and parenthood and real life advice (some useful,
some not so much). Powered by Amy's charming and hilarious, biting yet
wise voice, Yes Please is a book full of words to live by. Love Letters to the Dead
It begins as an assignment for English class: write a letter to a dead
person - any dead person. Laurel chooses Kurt Cobain - he died young,
and so did Laurel's sister May - so maybe he'll understand a bit of what
Laurel is going through. Soon Laurel is writing letters to lots of dead
people - Janis Joplin, Heath Ledger, River Phoenix, Amelia Earhart
...it's like she can't stop. And she'd certainly never dream of handing
them in to her teacher. She writes about what it's like going to a new
high school, meeting new friends, falling in love for the first time -
and how her family has shattered since May died. But much as Laurel
might find writing the letters cathartic, she can't keep real life out
forever. The ghosts of her past won't be contained between the lines of a
page, and she will have to come to terms with growing up, the agony of
losing a beloved sister, and the realisation that only you can shape
your destiny. It is a lyrical, haunting and stunning debut from the
protege of Stephen Chbosky (The perks of being a wallflower).

Am I Normal Yet?
All Evie wants is to be normal. And now that she's almost off her meds
and at a new college where no one knows her as the-girl-who-went-nuts,
there's only one thing left to tick off her list... But relationships
can mess with anyone's head - something Evie's new friends Amber and
Lottie know only too well. The trouble is, if Evie won't tell them her
secrets, how can they stop her making a huge mistake?